Chart assignment
Charts to read and discuss
Read each chart, then answer its questions. Every chart shows its source and date; open it for a table of the numbers and the data to download.
Chart 1 of 1 · Companies
What does any public company report in revenue, profit, cash and buybacks?
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Type any U.S.-listed company's name or ticker to see its revenue, profit, cash and stock buybacks each fiscal year, exactly as it reported them to the SEC, with a link to every filing. Apple, shown first, had revenue of $479 billion in fiscal 2026, up from $24 billion in fiscal 2007. The figures start around 2007, when companies began filing their numbers in a form computers can read (XBRL), and each year is the figure first reported, not a later restatement. Fiscal years are named by the year they end in, which can differ from a company's own name for them.
Questions to discuss
- In one sentence of your own, what does this chart show?
- Find the biggest change or difference in the chart. What might explain it?
- Who collected these numbers, and how recent are they? What else would you want to know before drawing a conclusion?
Source: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR company financial data (XBRL) (Public domain (U.S. government work)) · Data as of Sep 26, 2026
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